As we deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic children are now stuck at home, which means it is time for parents and grandparents to get creative.

Speaker, parenting expert and grandmother Susan Alexander Yates has created a practical guide for creating special events that will help you develop meaningful, lasting connections with your extended family, even in the midst of a global pandemic. It's called Cousin Camp.

Cousin Camp is an inspiring, practical book that outlines how grandparents can plan and host a camp. Grandmother to 21 grandchildren, Yates has been creating cousin camps and family camps for years. Now she passes on what she’s learned so you can help your children and grandchildren develop meaningful, lasting connections with each other–and with you!

Full of specific, practical ideas and hilarious stories, this book contains everything you need to know from initial planning (who, when, and where) to a daily schedule to specific ways to build friendships among family members. Her concepts apply in a variety of situations.

Susan Alexander Yates is a mom to five children (including a set of twins) and grandmother to 21 (including a set of quadruplets!). Susan and her husband John have been married 49 years. Susan has written 15 books and speaks on the subjects of marriage, parenting, faith, and women’s issues. 

Susan is a North Carolina Tarheel. She loves Monday night football, ACC basketball, shooting hoops with her grandsons, hiking and riding horseback with her husband, running and talking with girlfriends. Susan’s favourite time of the year is June when all her kids and grandkids are together for a week of “cousins and family camp” in the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia.